Defendants Lev Trakhtenberg, his wife, Defendant I'lina, and Malchikov were forcing Russian women to dance at strip clubs in the US. The defendants were luring young women in Russia with attractive offers for dancing at New York strip clubs, for which opportunity the women paid a hefty fee. The women were brought in into the US with fraudulently obtained visas, the visa applications falsely claimed that the women were highly specialized and internally-acclaimed singers and dancers. When the women arrived in New York, Defendants collected their passports and return tickets. They had also collected emergency contact information from the women with regard to the women's family members in Russia, which Defendants later used to threaten their families and the women in order to prevent the women from leaving Defendants' control. Defendants required that the women paid them $200 a day proceeds from their work, even on days when they earned less or were too exhausted or ill to work. The women lived in apartments in Brooklyn and were transported by a van to the nude dancing establishments in New Jersey by Defendant Serge Malchikov, among other drivers.